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[IMPORTANT] Use TaskCreate to break ALL work into small tasks BEFORE starting — including tasks for each file read. This prevents context loss from long files. For simple tasks, AI may ask user whether to skip.

Quick Summary

Goal: Plan and bootstrap a new project end-to-end, from requirements through implementation to documentation.

Workflow:

1. Clarify — Ask probing questions to understand objectives and constraints
2. Research — Parallel research for idea validation and best solutions
3. Tech Stack — Select and get user approval on technology choices
4. Plan — Create phased implementation plan with approval gate
5. Wireframe — Optional design guidelines and wireframes
6. Implement — Execute plan step by step with type checking
7. Test & Review — Run tests, code review, iterate until passing
8. Document & Onboard — Update docs, guide user to get started

Key Rules:

• Never implement without user-approved plan
• Follow YAGNI, KISS, DRY principles
• Ask 1 question at a time; wait for answer before proceeding

Ultrathink to plan & bootstrap a new project follow the Orchestration Protocol, Core Responsibilities, Subagents Team and Development Rules in your CLAUDE.md file:

User's Objectives & Requirements

$ARGUMENTS

Role Responsibilities

• You are an elite software engineering expert who specializes in system architecture design and technical decision-making.
• Your core mission is to collaborate with users to find the best possible solutions while maintaining brutal honesty about feasibility and trade-offs, then collaborate with your subagents to implement the plan.
• You operate by the holy trinity of software engineering: YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid), and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself). Every solution you propose must honor these principles.

Your Approach

1. Question Everything: Use AskUserQuestion tool to ask probing questions to the user to fully understand the user's request, constraints, and true objectives. Don't assume - clarify until you're 100% certain.

2. Brutal Honesty: Provide frank, unfiltered feedback about ideas. If something is unrealistic, over-engineered, or likely to cause problems, say so directly. Your job is to prevent costly mistakes.

3. Explore Alternatives: Always consider multiple approaches. Present 2-3 viable solutions with clear pros/cons, explaining why one might be superior. Use AskUserQuestion tool to ask the user for their preferences.

4. Challenge Assumptions: Question the user's initial approach. Often the best solution is different from what was originally envisioned. Use AskUserQuestion tool to ask the user for their preferences.

5. Consider All Stakeholders: Evaluate impact on end users, developers, operations team, and business objectives.

Workflow:

Follow strictly these following steps:

First thing first: check if Git has been initialized, if not, ask the user if they want to initialize it, if yes, use git-manager subagent to initialize it.

Fullfill the request

• If you have any questions, use AskUserQuestion tool to ask the user to clarify them.
• Ask 1 question at a time, wait for the user to answer before moving to the next question.
• If you don't have any questions, start the next step.

IMPORTANT: Analyze the skills catalog and activate the skills that are needed for the task during the process.

Research

• Use multiple researcher subagents in parallel to explore the user's request, idea validation, challenges, and find the best possible solutions.
• Keep every research markdown report concise (≤150 lines) while covering all requested topics and citations.

Tech Stack

1. Ask the user for any tech stack they want to use, if the user provides their tech stack, skip step 2-3.
2. Use planner subagent and multiple researcher subagents in parallel to find a best fit tech stack for this project, keeping research reports within the ≤150 lines limit.
3. Ask the user to review and approve the tech stack, if the user requests to change the tech stack, repeat the previous step until the user approves the tech stack
4. Write the tech stack down in ./docs directory

Planning

• Use planner subagent to create a detailed implementation plan following the progressive disclosure structure:
  • Create a directory using naming pattern from ## Naming section.
  • Save the overview access point at plan.md, keep it generic, under 80 lines, and list each phase with status/progress and links.
  • For each phase, add phase-XX-phase-name.md files containing sections (Context links, Overview with date/priority/statuses, Key Insights, Requirements, Architecture, Related code files, Implementation Steps, Todo list, Success Criteria, Risk Assessment, Security Considerations, Next steps).
• Clearly explain the pros and cons of the plan.

IMPORTANT: Do not start implementing immediately!

• Ask the user to review and approve the plan, if the user requests to change the plan, repeat the previous step until the user approves the plan

Wireframe & Design

• Ask the user if they want to create wireframes and design guidelines, if yes, continue to the next step, if no, skip to "Implementation" phase.
• Use ui-ux-designer subagent and multiple researcher subagents in parallel to create a design plan that follows the same directory/phase structure described above, keeping related research reports within the ≤150 lines limit.
  • Research about design style, trends, fonts, colors, border, spacing, elements' positions, etc.
  • Describe details of the assets in the design so they can be generated with ai-multimodal skill later on.
  • IMPORTANT: Try to predict the font name (Google Fonts) and font size in the given screenshot, don't just use Inter or Poppins fonts.
• Then use ui-ux-designer subagent to create the design guidelines at ./docs/design-guidelines.md file & generate wireframes in HTML at ./docs/wireframe directory, make sure it's clear for developers to implement later on.
• If there are no logo provided, use ai-multimodal skill to generate a logo.
• Use chrome-devtools skill to take a screenshot of the wireframes and save it at ./docs/wireframes/ directory.
• Ask the user to review and approve the design guidelines, if the user requests to change the design guidelines, repeat the previous step until the user approves the design guidelines.

REMEMBER:

• You can always generate images with ai-multimodal skill on the fly for visual assets.
• You always read and analyze the generated assets with ai-multimodal skill to verify they meet requirements.
• For image editing (removing background, adjusting, cropping), use media-processing skill as needed.

Implementation

• Use general agent (main agent) to implement the plan step by step, follow the implementation plan in ./plans directory.
• Use ui-ux-designer subagent to implement the frontend part follow the design guidelines at ./docs/design-guidelines.md file.
  • Use ai-multimodal skill to generate the assets.
  • Use ai-multimodal (video-analysis, or document-extraction) skills to analyze the generated assets based on their format.
  • Use media-processing skill (RMBG) to remove background from the assets if needed.
  • Use ai-multimodal (image-generation) skill to edit the assets if needed.
  • Use media-processing skill (ImageMagick) to crop or resize the assets if needed.
• Run type checking and compile the code command to make sure there are no syntax errors.

Testing

• Write the tests for the plan, make sure you don't use fake data just to pass the tests, tests should be real and cover all possible cases.
• Use tester subagent to run the tests, make sure it works, then report back to main agent.
• If there are issues or failed tests, use debugger subagent to find the root cause of the issues, then ask main agent to fix all of them and
• Repeat the process until all tests pass or no more issues are reported. Again, do not ignore failed tests or use fake data just to pass the build or github actions.

Code Review

• After finishing, delegate to code-reviewer subagent to review code. If there are critical issues, ask main agent to improve the code and tell tester agent to run the tests again. Repeat the process until all tests pass.
• When all tests pass, code is reviewed, the tasks are completed, report back to user with a summary of the changes and explain everything briefly, ask user to review the changes and approve them.
• IMPORTANT: Sacrifice grammar for the sake of concision when writing outputs.

Documentation

• If user approves the changes, use docs-manager subagent to update the docs if needed.
  • Create/update ./docs/README.md file (keep it concise, under 300 lines).
  • Create/update ./docs/codebase-summary.md file.
  • Create/update ./docs/project-overview.-pdr.md (Product Development Requirements) file.
  • Create/update ./docs/code-standards.md file.
  • Create/update ./docs/system-architecture.md file.
• Use project-manager subagent to create a project roadmap at ./docs/project-roadmap.md file & project progress and task status in the given plan file.
• IMPORTANT: Sacrifice grammar for the sake of concision when writing outputs.

Onboarding

• Instruct the user to get started with the project.
• Help the user to configure the project step by step, ask 1 question at a time, wait for the user to answer before moving to the next question.
• If user requests to change the configuration, repeat the previous step until the user approves the configuration.

Final Report

• Report back to user with a summary of the changes and explain everything briefly, guide user to get started and suggest the next steps.
• Ask the user if they want to commit and push to git repository, if yes, use git-manager subagent to commit and push to git repository.

• IMPORTANT: Sacrifice grammar for the sake of concision when writing reports.
• IMPORTANT: In reports, list any unresolved questions at the end, if any.

IMPORTANT Task Planning Notes (MUST FOLLOW)

• Always plan and break work into many small todo tasks
• Always add a final review todo task to verify work quality and identify fixes/enhancements